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Islandwood

The primary goal is to help children & adults develop a commitment to lifelong learning & environmental and community stewardship through hands-on learning experiences combining science, technology, & the arts at ISLANDWOOD's 255-acre outdoor learning center and in schools.

$307k
Granted FY2023
5
Itemized grants FY2023
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$54k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$9,555
Largest grant, FY2023
$20,575
Organizations funded a year
1 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$51M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Islandwood funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’22’23
EducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20233$54k33%
FY20221$7k0%
FY20205$116k0%
FY201911$217k18%
FY20189$243k11%
FY201710$222kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$859k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Seattle Public Schools$435,8558n/a
Bremerton School District$83,9954n/a
Mukilteo School District No 6$52,3802n/a
Renton School District #403$41,7753n/a
Edmonds School District$39,9603n/a
Federal Way Public Schools$38,9503n/a
Suquamish Elementary$34,0753n/a
Liberty Elementary$29,5453n/a
Everett Public Schools$27,2454n/a
Tacoma Public Schools$24,0202n/a
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All grantees of Islandwood by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Seattle Public Schools$435,8558n/a
Bremerton School District$83,9954n/a
Mukilteo School District No 6$52,3802n/a
Renton School District #403$41,7753n/a
Edmonds School District$39,9603n/a
Federal Way Public Schools$38,9503n/a
Suquamish Elementary$34,0753n/a
Liberty Elementary$29,5453n/a
Everett Public Schools$27,2454n/a
Tacoma Public Schools$24,0202n/a
Skagit River Poetry Project$22,4453n/a
South Kitsap School District$16,3801n/a
Lake Quinault School District$6,4801n/a
Seattle Nativity School$6,27030%

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Page Ahead Childrens …InvestedWashington First Robo…Kaiser Foundation Hea…School's Out Washingt…GenYOUTH IncorporatedFor Inspiration and R…Washington Music Educ…KidvantageNaturebridgeBuilding ChangesGates Foundation
Page Ahead Childrens Literacy PrgmWA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Page Ahead Childrens Literacy Prgm · Invested · Washington First Robotics · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington · School's Out Washington · GenYOUTH Incorporated · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Washington Music Educators Association · Kidvantage · Naturebridge · Building Changes · Gates Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Islandwood

How much does Islandwood give?
Islandwood reported 5 itemized grants totaling $54,400, out of $307,293 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Islandwood fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Islandwood's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Seattle Public Schools ($436k), Bremerton School District ($84k), Mukilteo School District No 6 ($52k).
Does Islandwood fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Islandwood?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Page Ahead Childrens Literacy Prgm, Invested, Washington First Robotics.
Where is Islandwood based?
Islandwood is based in WA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $226k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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